http://seattleotaku.com Fandom from Behind the Camera Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:31:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://seattleotaku.com/2010/08/gundam/ http://seattleotaku.com/2010/08/gundam/#comments Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:27:10 +0000 Eric http://seattleotaku.com/?p=300 Mobile Suit Gundam is less a show than an outright industry. TV series, OVAs, movies, games, model kits, novels, toys, trading cards, you name it. If there's an event to publicize or anything that can be sold in this world, someone, somewhere has plastered a Gundam image on one at some time. Yes, even toilet paper. [...]]]> http://seattleotaku.com/2010/08/gundam/feed/ 1 http://seattleotaku.com/2009/10/robot-carnival/ http://seattleotaku.com/2009/10/robot-carnival/#comments Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:30:07 +0000 Eric http://seattleotaku.com/?p=245 Robot Carnival. Some of the featured animators were relatively new at directing and continued on to design and direct other favorites, including others listed on this site (or soon will be...). Much of the soundtrack was composed by Jo Hisaishi, best known for his close association with Studio Ghibli soundtracks as well. While domestic and import releases are out of print, and the domestic cable showings of the early '90s have long since stopped, Robot Carnival has become a treasure of obscurity. [...]]]> http://seattleotaku.com/2009/10/robot-carnival/feed/ 0 http://seattleotaku.com/2009/06/ace-wo-nerae/ http://seattleotaku.com/2009/06/ace-wo-nerae/#comments Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:00:01 +0000 Eric http://seattleotaku.com/?p=236 http://seattleotaku.com/2009/06/ace-wo-nerae/feed/ 1 http://seattleotaku.com/2009/05/3x3-eyes/ http://seattleotaku.com/2009/05/3x3-eyes/#comments Sat, 30 May 2009 08:38:59 +0000 Eric http://seattleotaku.com/?p=232 3x3 Eyes was released as two OVA series: four animated episodes from 1991 skip a few years of plot to a final three episodes in 1995. DVD editions here in the states are now out of print, and the translated manga stopped after nine volumes of the original forty. Late for work one day, Yakumo speeds on his scooter and knocks over a pretty girl, Pai. Turns out this girl was looking for him, as she's carrying a letter from his late father asking him to help her become human. She's the last of an ancient race of immortal demons, though he doesn't believe this until she saves him from death by absorbing his soul. Yakumo has become her immortal servant warrior, so long as she lives. Trouble is, he's not much of a fighter, and the cute naive Pai has a deadly alternate personality that doesn't approve of him as her servant unless he proves himself. [...]]]> http://seattleotaku.com/2009/05/3x3-eyes/feed/ 0 http://seattleotaku.com/2009/05/honneamise/ http://seattleotaku.com/2009/05/honneamise/#comments Mon, 18 May 2009 16:51:44 +0000 Eric http://seattleotaku.com/?p=227 The Right Stuff, a nation struggles to launch the first man into space in the epic The Wings of Honneamise (aka The Royal Space Force). As a boy, Shiro dreamed of flying the fast jets he watched take off from a nearby airfield. Low grades and a slacker attitude kept him out of the military, and his only chance was a branch everyone looked down on for accepting almost anyone: the Royal Space Force. Politicians and warring neighbors threaten to stop the plans of the space force after many failed tests and lost pilots. (...)]]> http://seattleotaku.com/2009/05/honneamise/feed/ 0 http://seattleotaku.com/2009/05/dragonball/ http://seattleotaku.com/2009/05/dragonball/#comments Sat, 09 May 2009 06:37:57 +0000 Eric http://seattleotaku.com/?p=223 http://seattleotaku.com/2009/05/dragonball/feed/ 0 http://seattleotaku.com/2009/05/early-may-photoshoot/ http://seattleotaku.com/2009/05/early-may-photoshoot/#comments Thu, 07 May 2009 19:41:47 +0000 Eric http://seattleotaku.com/?p=218 http://seattleotaku.com/2009/05/early-may-photoshoot/feed/ 0 http://seattleotaku.com/2009/04/evangelion/ http://seattleotaku.com/2009/04/evangelion/#comments Fri, 01 May 2009 01:02:53 +0000 Eric http://seattleotaku.com/?p=211 Shinseiki Evangelion (or here in the US, Neon Genesis Evangelion from trying their hand at it. Commander Ikari and his defense-department corporation NERV lead a battle against invading aliens with large robots controlled by fourteen year olds, children born the last time the aliens attacked. Rei (quiet and unemotional), Shinji (Ikari's shy son), and Asuka (spoiled rotten) pilot these huge "Eva" bio-mechanical robots, at the command and care of Misato and Ritsuko, among others. While the show has plenty of action in each episode, the relationships between the various characters and the feelings brought out by battle and unknown forces really takes the center stage. [...]]]> http://seattleotaku.com/2009/04/evangelion/feed/ 0 http://seattleotaku.com/2009/04/sakuracon2009-photo-teaser/ http://seattleotaku.com/2009/04/sakuracon2009-photo-teaser/#comments Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:16:00 +0000 Eric http://seattleotaku.com/?p=209 http://seattleotaku.com/2009/04/sakuracon2009-photo-teaser/feed/ 0 http://seattleotaku.com/2009/04/boogiepop/ http://seattleotaku.com/2009/04/boogiepop/#comments Fri, 10 Apr 2009 07:00:46 +0000 Eric http://seattleotaku.com/?p=161 Serial Experiments Lain and at times including similar sort of "other-worldly" seffects, Boogiepop Phantom is coming to get you. Five years ago, a series of disappearances and murders took place, affecting a group of people surrounding a high school in different ways. An urban legend began as well: that strange feeling of being watched on dark evening streets just might be Boogiepop Phantom coming for you. [...]]]> http://seattleotaku.com/2009/04/boogiepop/feed/ 0